barking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bark

adj

1. (British, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang)Clipping of barking mad.

   “He’s going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking!”

noun

1. The action of the verb to bark.

   “Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.”

name

1. A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484).
2. A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0753).